Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue

Author(s) : Alain Badiou, Author(s) : Elisabeth Roudinesco, Translator : Jason E. Smith

Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue

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  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Published : 2014
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 128
  • Category :
    Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 35548
  • ISBN 13 : 9780231165112
  • ISBN 10 : 0231165110
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Prompted by the thirtieth anniversary of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's death, this exchange between two prominent intellectuals is rich with surprising insights.

Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical masters, Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Elisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the French analytic world since Lacan's death - critiquing, for example, the link (or lack thereof) between politics and psychoanalysis in Lacan's work, among other issues.

Their dynamic dialogue draws readers into an intimate, at times contentious, yet ultimately productive debate that reinvigorates the work of a pivotal twentieth-century thinker.

About the Author(s)

Elisabeth Roudinesco teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is the author of many books.

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